News On Dehydrated Potato Products from Belgium

The Belgian potato processing industry has seen a spectacular growth during the last decades. The companies active in this sector have grown from 500.000 tons of processed potatoes in 1990 to 3,65 million tons of raw material in 2012.

EUPPA, the European Potato Processors’ Association, is organising in Brussels its 1st Congress for the processed potatoes’ sector on 16th May 2013 in Brussels, which will be also an opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of EUPPA.

Last week McCain Foods and PinguinLutosa announced an agreement on the sale of the PinguinLutosa potato division. The Belgian Newspaper 'De Standaard' reveals how McCain Foods ended up the preferred buyer instead of Conagra Foods Lamb Weston.

Contrary to what many in the Belgian media had suggested, it is McCain Foods picking up the potato division of the Belgian Frozen Food manufacturer PinguinLutosa and not Conagra Foods Lamb Weston.

The European Potato Processors Association (EUPPA) general assembly has approved yesterday new statutes and elected a new board at its meeting in Brussels earlier this week. The EUPPA member companies actively process potatoes in Austria, Belgium, Fra...

Although PinguinLutosa has not declared who the buyer is of their Lutosa potato processing division, the Belgian Media have made their mind up: Lamb Weston will buy Lutosa.

The Belgian potato-processing industry continued to grow in 2011 for its entire product segment, as shown by the annual production data published by Belgapom, the Belgian federation of the potato trade and processing sector. This growth is above all tr...

Last week, the Commission presented its proposals for the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP 2020) to the European Parliament. That triggered a number of reactions from stakeholders. The European starch industry association (AAF), as a major user o...

De handel blijft een belangrijke rol spelen in de aanvoer van aardappelen naar Lutosa in Leuze-en-Hainaut. In Nederland is het belang van de aardappelhandel flink gereduceerd, maar voor zo’n ontwikkeling kiest PinguinLutosa niet, zegt Emanuel Van den B...

Scana Noliko PinguinLutosa is proud to announce that the acquisition of the Scana Noliko group was successfully closed today. The figures of Scana Noliko will be included in the consolidation scope of PinguinLutosa as of 1 July 2011. Supported by t...

En Bruselas hay un atasco de 66 productos transgénicos esperando autorización, 21 de ellos para cultivo y 45 para importar de los países que monopolizan el mercado mundial. En este atolladero burocrático de los transgénicos hay de todo: patata, girasol...

Durante las últimas décadas, la industria belga de procesamiento de papa ha experimentado un crecimiento espectacular. Ya en 1995 procesaba cerca de 500.000 toneladas de papas, entre bastones frescos y congelados, croquetas de todas las formas, papas ...

During the past few decades, the Belgian potato-processing industry experienced spectacular growth.

De vraag naar aardappelzetmeel uit de Europese Unie is sterk gestegen.

China anunció este lunes que investigará si los países miembros de la Unión Europea (UE) subvencionaron las exportaciones de almidón de patata a China, en cuyo caso analizaría la repercusión de dichos subsidios en la industria doméstica. Se trata de l...

The European Union is to radically overhaul its approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops from next month, opening the way to large-scale GM cultivation in Europe, draft proposals seen by Reuters on Friday showed. With most Europeans showing...

De moeilijke marktomstandigheden en de economische crisis hebben de aardappelverwerkende industrie in Noordwest-Europa vele tientallen miljoenen euro gekost. Verwacht wordt dat ook 2010 een moeilijk jaar blijft voor de aardappelverwerkers. “Onze marges...